The dad of missing airman Corrie McKeague blockaded a rubbish tip where his son is believed to be buried yesterday.

Martin McKeague used his camper van to block the entrance to the landfill site at Milton, Cambridgeshire after police ended the search on Friday afternoon – 10 months after Corrie’s disappearance.

Officers from Suffolk and Norfolk police have spent 20 weeks sifting through 6,500 tonnes of waste at the tip, but said they have now completed the search of the area where they know waste was deposited in that period.

Mr McKeague, who said on Facebook on Friday that he was “devastated” by the announcement, was in tears as he stood at the entrance to the site with his wife Trisha. He said he wanted the police to continue searching the landfill site as they needed “closure”.

He said today: “As a father, I felt I had to come back here and block off the entrance.

“I want the search to carry on and I hope they make the right decision today.

“All the facts and all the evidence lies at this landfill site and as a father I think you would probably do the same thing.

The landfill search for Corrie McKeague has been called off after five months (Image: PA)

“We just need them to do the right thing and continue to look for Corrie.”

He said he was convinced Corrie was at the landfill site and the police just needed to continue their search. Trisha said: “It has been a living hell. We just need to know today that police are going to carry on with their search. We can’t thank these guys enough.”

Mr McKeague’s actions came after Corrie’s mum, Nicola Urquhart, urged the police to ask the army for help in searching the landfill site.

Nicola said she wanted to find out why police have stopped the search when they still believe Corrie is buried there.